Film

Case 39

Cert: 15

Description: Social worker Emily Jenkins and Detective Mike Barron are called to an address where a little girl is believed to be in danger. Breaking into the property, the do-gooders discover Keith Sullivan and his wife Margaret attempting to roast their cherubic 10-year-old daughter Lillith in the oven. Emily is strangely moved by Lillith's plight and, breaking all of the rules, she allows the girl to stay under her roof.

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Dir: Christian Alvart.

Cast: Renee Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Callum Keith Rennie, Bradley Cooper, Adrian Lester, Kerry O'Malley, Ian McShane

Country: US.

Year: 2009.

Duration: 109mins

Case 39 has a terrible script

By Derek Malcolm
5 Mar 2010

Renée Zellweger plays a social worker who adopts a girl (Jodelle Ferland) who has been badly abused and begins to rue the day - the girl is none other than Little Miss Satan.

Even poor old Ian McShane as the police officer who fancies her (Zellweger, not the little girl) gets done in by a terrible script.